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To ask if & how you're going to celebrate Easter this year?

83 replies

GreenestValley · 02/04/2020 12:51

It feels so different to a regular Easter weekend where you so look forward to and plan for those two days off!

Are you going to do anything special with your household e.g. nice meal, give Easter eggs, egg hunts for DC etc?

Trying to think of ways to make it still feel like a special moment in the year.

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Ludways · 02/04/2020 13:40

It's my birthday on Good Friday and my sisters on the Easter Sunday, my sister lives away so her being here for Easter and our birthdays was to be a big deal with lots of plans. They aren't to be now, but hey ho, so long as we're alive to celebrate our birthdays next year I figure we're better off than lots of others. I'll probably just make a nice meal and I'll get to pick the family movie, woo hoo!

LaurieFairyCake · 02/04/2020 13:43

Really annoyingly I've already offered them to Dh (teacher) to take in and he said that the parents had got antsy about 'contamination' ShockConfused

Bizarre! It's the stuff going round on social media about people spraying their groceries with bloody Dettol

World has gone mad! The bloke on the BBC was getting really annoyed this morning and said the risk from catching the virus from packaging was probably less than breathing in and out normally

ohtheholidays · 02/04/2020 13:47

We'll do what we'd normally do(apart from our holiday that had to be cancelled)we've bought Easter presents and Easter Eggs for our 5DC and our DGS.

We'll do an Easter egg hunt and have a special dinner on Easter Sunday.

But I can't see 3 of my DC(they don't live at home)or our GS and it's his first easter,so I can't wait for us all to be able to see each other again.

Itoldyouiwasill · 02/04/2020 13:51

Easter Sunday is my favourite day of the year. It's always been spent with family, an Easter egg hunt in the garden and then roast lamb lunch.
I can hardly believe that this year I'll be alone, no DC, no parents, no GC here. Just me and the pooch.
I've got a big Birthday coming up after that and it will be exactly the same.
But it needs to be

Rockbird · 02/04/2020 13:53

We don't usually make a big fuss of Easter apart from the eggs but this year I've bought crafts, decorations and will do an egg hunt. Will try to do a nice lunch too.

bluechameleon · 02/04/2020 13:56

Hopefully I'll be able to get something to roast. You've just made me think I should add cornflakes to my shopping list so we can make nests. I bought various Easter bits for the children at the start of the month so I've got stuff to give them, and I've got some little eggs for a hunt. We will do some crafts and my mum has sent us a biscuit decorating kit so we will do that too.

cardibach · 02/04/2020 13:57

Well, since I’m in lockdown on my own, very little.
Mind you I normally do very little, so it won’t be much of a change.

georgialondon · 02/04/2020 14:00

We do what we always do. Eat lots of chocolate

steppemum · 02/04/2020 14:05

we usually have a lovley spring like family meet up at Easter.

Very sad we can't do that.

But for us, Easter is also a faith celebration, so our church is doing on-line service on Friday and Sunday.
If the weather is good I might see if we can rustle up a BBQ as a change.
I do have some choccy eggs put by

mynameiscalypso · 02/04/2020 14:06

We were supposed to be seeing DH's family so bought them all fancy Easter eggs. Now we're not, my plan is to spend all of Sunday/Monday eating their eggs (he ordered some online for them).

AuntieMarys · 02/04/2020 14:08

Never do anything normally. However dh is off this year ( he usually works it). So no idea.

DinosApple · 02/04/2020 14:09

Egg hunt follow by the meal we always eat (a Sri Lankan curry). But that means being able to a) buy all ingredients and b) cooking it...

Usually we have a massive family meal at my mum's, and she cooks. Time I polished up my knife skills and learnt!

DickClarksNewYearsRockinEve · 02/04/2020 14:11

We usually just have a roast and lots of chocolate (and wine). Have got eggs for my DC but not sure I’ll be able to get all the ingredients for a roast. Stocked up on wine, though Grin.

JayoftheRed · 02/04/2020 14:15

I usually attend the 5am Sunrise Service at my church where walk through the stages that Mary and the other women walked that first Easter Sunday (if you believe in it), there is a small fire in the car park, we say prayers, and then we have a massive fry up in the church hall at 6am! Home by 7am, egg hunt with the kids, back to church for the 10.30 celebration service and then to my mum's for a lamb dinner.

This year I will probably sleep in! We've got eggs put aside, so will do a hunt as usual, and then my church has been streaming our services live on Facebook, so will probably do that and then... I dunno. Stop the kids fighting, eat too much, drink too much... Much like all the other days of this never-ending lockdown...

Ragwort · 02/04/2020 14:20

I love the Easter Church service so am hoping there will be something televised, our Church is doing services via Zoom but I am not particularly keen on that. Our DS is a teenager so no need for Easter Egg hunts, hopefully a nice lunch, but sadly not with my elderly parents and a walk (alone) & board games in the evening Grin.

MsSquiz · 02/04/2020 14:21

DH and I will have a lovely Sunday lunch (dd is only 15 weeks old, so luckily oblivious) and we'll probably FaceTime or house party or whatever with his parents, his sister & his brother, SIL & 3 kids.

They were all supposed to be coming to us for our annual Easter lunch and egg hunt. SIL had even bought matching dresses for DD and DNiece who's 3.

It's a shame, but there's no way round it and we can just have a lovely get together when we can

Waxonwaxoff0 · 02/04/2020 14:22

Egg hunt round the house for 6yo DS. I bought everything I needed for it before lockdown.

I'll probably make a roast and buy myself a bottle of Baileys.

Spamellahamella · 02/04/2020 14:25

I have managed to get Easter eggs on my Tesco delivery. Will do a cryptic egg hunt for the kids. Might order a take away and defo have a bottle of red. We would normally have a lovely roast dinner with family, but my Tesco order for 2 weeks is coming this Sunday and I havent got a.joint on it. Might look round the local pubs doing take outs and see what we can get. I got myself an egg. Can't flipping wait!

Purpleorangegerberas · 02/04/2020 14:26

I’ve got an egg each and bits in for an Easter hamper each for my 2 DC and I will cook a lamb roast and make a special dessert and probably spend the day watching films.
It’s my eldest DC’s 14th birthday tomorrow and for that we will be having birthday breakfast, some gifts, ordering pizza in and watching movies and playing games of his choice. We’re now self isolating as he’s been poorly but he has fifa 20 as one of his gifts so I expect he’ll want to play that a fair bit too! Grin

MrsJonesAndMe · 02/04/2020 14:58

We will be doing a hunt from the bunny and we have eggs for the children and the children have eggs for us (so one each for all of us and the bunny for children only)

Apart from that we will probably video phone the grandparents and that's it!

(not religious)

Spanglybangles · 02/04/2020 14:59

Well I’ll be working (nhs) early shift and it’s OH’s birthday on Easter Sunday, so before I leave, I’ll probably hide a selection of creme eggs etc around the house and garden for the kids to find when they get up. Then after work we’ll have a chicken dinner with the last pack of pigs and blankets I have in freezer from Christmas, eat chocolate eggs as I bought my Easter supplies weeks ago and toast OH’s birthday with a couple of G&T’s in the evening.

TimeAintNothing · 02/04/2020 19:25

@LaurieFairyCake a lady in our village had collected loads of Easter eggs for kids day camp that usually runs in the Easter holidays. Now that camp isn't on she's been going out on her daily walk and leaving eggs on the doorsteps of houses with rainbows in the window as she assumes children will be living there. She must have been walking around our street today as four were left on our doorstep with the milk this morning.

ImFreeToDoWhatIWant · 02/04/2020 19:32

Same as we always do, bung the kids their egg at breakfast on Sunday, that's it!

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 02/04/2020 19:36

I've ordered Easter Eggs for the DC ( young adults)
We'll have a nice dinner ( Christmas Dinner without the sprouts) maybe brocilli?

If I can get some Hot Cross Buns that'll be nice .

We'll potter round the garden with the cats .
No Easter Tree this year (the cats made their feelings known about indoor decorative trees at Christmas )

Mrsfussypants1 · 06/04/2020 15:45

I'd booked Easter week off work last year and had been really looking forward to Easter. We have an almost 4yr old granddaughter so had planned for sleepover (I'd bought us bunny pjs), a trip to our friends farm, bonnet decorating, a family gathering at ours on the sunday with an Easter egg hunt. DH and I were going to an airbnb at the lake district for a couple of nights the day after the bank holiday. Instead it's going to be a lazy weekend at home. I'll still put the easter decorations up, have lamb roast, scoff eggs whilst watching watership down, potter in the garden, drink and play the unopened board games from a couple of christmases ago, wear bunny pjs and facetime family. Our granddaughter lives less than 5mins walk away, so Easter sunday morning DH and I will take a walk around there, I'll slip some bunny ears on, and we will leave Eggs and gifts I collected months ago in the garden and wave. It feels like such a long time since I've hugged my daughter and granddaughter.